Chapter 2360 Guizijuan family, family property

  The housewarming ceremony was not very grand, and in the eyes of many people, it was even very low-key. The Feng Mansion did not hold any celebrations, but simply notified relatives and friends to let everyone know that the move was over.

  Feng Ziying didn't even bother to ask, everything was handed over to the women in the back house. Until the relocation was almost done, he, as the head of the family, only went to take care of it.

   "Satisfied, why not satisfied? Ladies who have worked so hard these days can be regarded as taking care of it. To be a husband is to sit back and enjoy the benefits. It should be to thank you ladies for your husband's good life."

The three daughters Shen Yixiu, Xue Baochai, and Lin Daiyu led the way, Baoqin, Miaoyu, Yingchun, and the second sister You followed behind, and a group of maids surrounded them. Taking advantage of the good weather and bright sunshine, they can be regarded as taking advantage of the good weather and bright sunshine. The pattern is set.

  Yuanyang and Jin Chuan'er led the way.

"Sister-in-law, don't say that, you are busy with important affairs outside, and the concubine and the younger sisters are incapable of sharing the worries for you, so you can only do your best to do these trivial things in the back house, so that you don't have to worry about it when you come back. "

  Shen Yixiu smiled sweetly, looking forward and looking charming.

"It's all thanks to the two younger sisters Baochai and Daiyu, Yuanyang, Ping'er, and Jin Chuan'er who have been carefully deliberating with the concubine during this period of time, and finally moved out a rough idea, because considering that there may be more in the future. There are some sisters coming in, so I reserved some first,..."

   Baochai and Daiyu kept saying they were modest, while Yuanyang, Ping'er and Jin Chuan'er were too busy to speak out.

"Master, please look, this is the study of the second master Bao, but it has been changed now. It is mainly used for daily assignments. On weekdays, it is the servants Heping'er and Jin Chuaner who take turns arranging daily gatekeeping, driving, etc. Kitchen, cleaning, mud tiles, flower seedlings and other matters,..."

  Since Feng Ziying was invited to take a look at the arrangements of the entire Feng Mansion today, Yuanyang did his part and took on the main introduction.

   The daily chores in the mansion are mainly managed by mandarin ducks, supplemented by Ping'er and Jin Chuan'er, who assist the three grandmothers to manage.

  If there is a large amount of financial expenses in normal times, it is necessary to invite the three daughters Shen Xuelin to sit in charge.

  If it is a general matter, Yuanyang, Pinger, and Jin Chuaner will deal with it and record it in the file, and then report it to Shen Xuelin and the three daughters at the end of each month for review.

   The three daughters, Yuanyang, Ping'er, and Jin Chuan'er, also work in shifts, so that they don't have to work too hard.

Although there are fewer women, servants, servants and servants in the mansion, with the addition of people in the house, and the huge house and garden, it will definitely continue to increase, so the logistics management of the entire mansion is also quite complicated. .

A rough calculation now shows that apart from grandma and aunts and their personal maids, there are more than 80 male servants in the entire Feng Mansion, such as porters, night watchmen, coachmen, gardeners, masons, carpenters, purchasers, and warehouse keepers. People, this is not counting Li Guibao, a professional bodyguard and guard.

  In addition, women and women are the main chores like kitchen, laundry, and cleaning, and there are many small maids in each room, which is more than a hundred people.

  Before, Feng Ziying couldn't believe how there were so many people. Later, Yuanyang only made an introduction based on the situation in the three-bedroom Daiyu house, and Feng Ziying understood.

In Daiyu's room, besides Zijuan and Xueyan, there are four small maids, eight rough servants, and four women in charge of night watch at the outer gate. In addition, Miaoyu originally only had one personal maid. , two young maids, four rough envoys, four women who watch the night at the outer gate, and the same for Xiuyan. Now that Miaoyu and Xiuyan have given birth to children, they each added a wet nurse, a small maid and a rough envoy. Maid, that is to say, there are more than forty servants in these three rooms alone.

Feng Ziying originally thought it was inconceivable that Rongning and Ning's second mansions had thousands of people, but now it's her own mansion's turn. This is a rough calculation, excluding the male servants who are common in the whole house, but the number of female servants in each room is forty. in its infancy, and will likely continue to grow.

   That is to say, not counting my mother and aunt's side, even my servants in the third room are more than 200 people. If my mother and aunt's side are included, it is estimated that there will be more than 300 people.

  In addition, I also have professionals who are responsible for bodyguards. This is another dozens of people. Even if they don’t need to stick to my house, I will definitely keep some at my house every day.

   So after all this calculation, Feng Ziying thinks that the artificial labor of this era is really worthless, and it is no wonder that the Rongning Second Mansion has such a big ostentation, and there are always thousands of people.

Feng Ziying also asked about the salaries of these servants in her mansion—that is, the monthly salary, which was basically a little higher than that of the Rongning Second Mansion. That would be considered very competitive in the capital, so the Feng Mansion's monthly bills can be considered relatively ample, and the servants are quite satisfied, especially at the end of the year, the Feng Mansion will basically give out a bonus—red envelopes, too. Not a small amount, so the servants of the entire Feng Mansion are much stronger than the Rongning Second Mansion in terms of loyalty.

  Of course, the Jia family is a hundred-year-old hairpin family after all, and there are many Jia clan members in it. These are all Jiarong who just ask for money for food, and because of the large population, they can't afford it.

  Like in Rongguo Mansion, Wang Xifeng’s monthly bill is about five taels of silver, Li Wan’s monthly bill is ten taels because he wants to take care of Jia Lan, and the monthly bills for girls and aunts who have not left the cabinet are the same, two taels a month.

   The big maids like Yuanyang by Jiamu's side can probably get one tael of silver per month, and Jin Chuan'er who follows Mrs. Wang can also get this amount, and the same is true for Baoyu's Xiren.

If it is a big maid in an ordinary house, such as Sheyue Qiuwen, it is about a dime. According to the conversion ratio of Dazhou silver and copper coins, about one tael of silver can be exchanged for 1,200 copper coins, that is, He said that in the entire Rongguo Mansion, except for Yuanyang, Jin Chuan'er, and Xiren, who could get a tael of silver monthly money, the other big maids could only get a sling of money, that is, a thousand copper coins.

  Ordinary maids get five hundred coins, but rough maids can only get two hundred to four hundred copper coins.

For a rural family in the suburbs of Beijing whose annual income is twenty taels of silver, this family basically refers to a family with three male laborers and two or three female laborers. They are also very enviable.

For example, the monthly income of a big maid in the Rongguo Mansion can reach twelve taels of silver, which is ten taels of silver. If you add the red envelopes of three or five taels of silver rewarded by the mansion at the end of the year, you can occasionally ask for it once or twice from the masters. The rewards such as silver beans, calculated, the income of a maid can reach fifteen or six taels of silver, which is almost equivalent to the income of two or three strong labor farmers in the suburbs of Beijing. The maids bought some clothes, jackets and trousers, which was also a considerable expense.

Calculated according to the current prices in Dazhou, in a normal year, the price of grain at the Zhangjiawan Wharf in Tongzhou is about nine cents and five cents per stone for corn, one or two and five cents per stone for japonica rice, and one or two or four cents per stone for inferior flour. With an annual income of about ten stones of flour, that is, 1,500 catties of flour, or fourteen stones of japonica rice, that is, 2,100 catties of japonica rice, or corn, which is indispensable for poor families in the north, can be bought for ten shi. Seven stones of corn, when folded down, is 2,600 catties of corn.

Of course, in the later period, the Rongguo Mansion could no longer afford such expenses, so not only did they deduct a lot from the monthly payments of the servant girls, but they often defaulted on them. Even calculating characters like Wang Xifeng and Tanchun couldn't solve the problem. this conundrum.

   It’s really hard for a smart woman to cook without rice, sitting on a mountain and living beyond her means, and the decline and even dilapidation of the Rongguo Mansion, even if there is no case of treason, it will be difficult to maintain it.

It can be said that the case of attaching rebellion was a fig leaf for the collapse of the Jia family, so as not to be unable to sustain it later, and could only sell the things in their own house shamelessly. In fact, this kind of thing It has been done for a long time, but it is just a way to mortgage the **** shop and then not redeem it when it expires.

Compared with the income of the servants of the Rongguo Mansion, the Feng Mansion was still a bit chaotic in the early stage. Later, when Shen Yixiu and Xue Baochai married in one after another, they began to regulate, but generally speaking, the income of the servants of the Feng family is probably higher than that of the Rongguo Mansion. 20% to 30% or so.

For example, if a maid takes a dime in the Rongguo Mansion, she will take one or two taels of silver in the Feng Mansion, which is an extra two hundred copper coins, such as Qingwen, Yunshang, Xiangling, Yinger, Zijuan, Xueyan, Siqi, The close-fitting maids like Xiuju and Lingguan get only one tael or five taels of silver from Feng's mansion.

Of course, such as Qingwen, Yunshang, Xiangling, Zijuan, and Siqi have already been taken over by Feng Ziying, and the maids who sometimes have to serve the bed are different. Two silver per month, that is, doubled every month.

And concubines like You Erjie, Yingchun, and Xiuyan receive five taels of silver per month, but because Yingchun and Xiuyan have children, in addition to doubling the monthly allowance, they get ten taels of silver every month. In addition, Li also gave each of the two daughters ten taels of silver per month as a subsidy for the children, and the mother-in-law was in charge of using it.

These ten taels of silver are not meant to be used for children’s clothing, food, housing, and transportation. Those expenses are uniformly paid by the government. This money is a special allowance for mothers alone, and it is used to encourage women in the government to have more children. To help the Feng family continue the family tradition and spread the branches and leaves by raising a daughter, the big and small Duan family specially rewarded them from their own private money.

As Miaoyu and Baoqin as concubines, they received eight taels of silver per month, but because Miaoyu had a child, the monthly rate was doubled to sixteen taels a month, plus a child subsidy of ten taels of silver, reaching two taels of silver. Sixteen taels, this is quite an astonishing amount for a woman from a Taoist family.

  The actual monthly payment of the three mistresses is actually more of a formality, but rules still need to be set.

The three of them were set at thirty taels per month. Because Shen Yixiu gave birth to Tong Niang, the monthly rate was doubled to sixty taels. In addition, he gave subsidies to twelve children, reaching a shocking seventy taels per month. One hundred and forty taels, equivalent to the income of forty-two peasant households in the suburbs of Beijing, almost as much as the official salary income of a fourth-rank official in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

   Calculated in this way, Feng Ziying herself felt very appalling, but thinking about it, compared with the two million monthly pocket money of those wealthy ladies in modern Hong Kong, it seems that it is out of reach.

   All in all, the sum of the expenses in the mansion every year is quite astonishing, but for a family that is thriving, it seems to be a normal phenomenon.

  (end of this chapter)